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"All the News That's Fit to THE WEATHER Fair and colder today and possibly stormy northwest winds. Temperature Yesterday Max. M. Min. 38.

Vr For weather report in next to Ut. page. rmxrrk rTTTCTG In Greater THREE CEXT CENTS TWO CENTb VorT Within tOO Mile I Elsewhere NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1922. i VOL. WfiQo IISH FREE STATE IIS KING'S ASSENT; iO INSTALL HEALY Ccvsrnor General Will Take Oath Tcdayand Saorstat Eireann Will Be Set Up.

SELECTION PLEASES IRISH He Won't Hold a Court Nor Take a but Will Remain the Same "Tim Healy." CCSCRAVE IS CONFIDENT Meets Healy at Holyhead and As-Berts That Ireland' Troubles Are Near an End. lKt br Tb Xew Terk Timet Cfcrapenj. 6petaJ Cable to Ths Nsw Yoa a Tim as. LONDON'. Dec.

o'clock this evening an event of great historic Interest and of international importance took place in House of Lorda. A ten minutes before that hour the Irish it State Constitution bills had passed the final state in the House of Com-cons bj formal acceptanco of the Lords' iner.drrienta. It was brought back, be-rboned and by the Clerk of the Commons himself, and handed to the Cerk cf the Parliament to receive the assent. This was conferred, as uuatf. by the Royal Commission, the members of which were Lord Cave.

Lord Kotbt and Lord Somerleyton. The Lord Chancellor, with customary formalities, conveyed the King's assent, and with the Clerk's announcement that roi le veult" the Irish Constitution act was addwfto the statute book ef the British Empire. Healy Is Appointed Gorcraer. 1 LONDON. Dec 3 Press).

The Irish Constitution became the law ef the land this ftemoon when. fol-' lowing tlie ancient ceremony of responding to a summons from the Black Rod." the Speaker of the House of headed a procession of the timbers of the lower hause to the tjper chamber of Parliament to hear the King's "assent to the two Irish bills Constitution and the Consequential Elil read by a royal It. -mediately after the ceremony, an-t was mails of the appoint-t-eU of Timothy Healy, a native-born Llihrcan, famous a parliamentarian tl lawyer, as the first Governor Gen-t-sl of the Irish Free-State. The entire ceremony took only si few Canutes. The Constitution bill had Hed both houses of Parliament unan-irsoualy and unamended.

The Conse-tntlal Provisions bill had been subbed to minor amendments In the Vper chamber, but these were agree to by tiie lower house. a group of half a dosen Communists rJe a scene in the central or public icibr of the House of Commons as the Piker's procession passed through the kiby on its way to the Lords to hear royal assent to the Irish bills. "hn the usual cry by the police of Kats off stranger was raised this roup would not take off their hats. fce constables thereupon removed the kits by a sweep of the arm. The same "Una occurred on the return of the procession from the Lords and as the then began to sing The Red Has" the police hustled them out of the JClni George will make a special Jour-fcty from Sandringham.

tomorrow to bold a privy council in Buckingham Palace, at which he wlil sign a procla tnatlon deo taring the adoption of the Irish Constitution by the Lrilish and Irish Iarliancnts. Tae Constitution Will come into operation Immediately on the issue of the proclamation. By a special Order In Council the full administration of the country has already been handed over to the pro-Visional Government. Therefore, when the Constitution comes into existence tomorrow there will be no ceremony of lay kind to mark the fulfillment of the t-taty made between the British and Governments. Arrangements for the evacuation of all trttlsh troops remaining in Free State territory are going forward, and It Is tierstoodS that the Jast of the.

military va have left by Dec. 18. A-Ithoughi the appointment of the new -trnor General of Ulster has not be ivjuncedj the rtport that the Luke of -Urcorn would be the choice seems to protre accurate. Healy Appointment Is Popular. t5-rtiM.

br Ths Sew Tors TIbiw Compear. Wlrefess to Ths Xsw Tosa TIM as. Dec. 5. Tim Healy's hls-torte appointment as Governor General tt Irish Free State has been re-d very great satisfaction by except! perhaps extreme Repub- tna Certainly from the Free State Point the -liiea of appolnUng Mr.

ky very luckily andwlsely con-Wved. He rtoo 1918 when the Sinn a ttreatened his Cork seat. As a yr has pleaded for Sinn Felners, the awkwardness of the appoint- Int tor Eamon Valera and his fol- Bwpapers acclaim ths thy acclaim the Freo State. Tlmea. while not pretending Volition of the Irish Vice i lv-e lu patrons unmoved, won undervalue or let tne dignity of his high say that no other i- ct A empire is likely to Governor of such sheer MriJ put Mr- tbs tilvwf TWW Journal, between which Ceattae4 ea Fas, rr.

I I i I I Rockefeller Giaes 42 To Park Ave. Baptist Ckurch John D. Rockefeller has ordered from Goellet Johnston. Croydon; EnaUad. a carillon of forty-two fpr the Park Avenue Baptirt Church at Sixty-fourth Street This fu Jr from the dollar which the Rockefeller family gave for every the rest of the pa rlshloners toward the building of th new church, which coat about $1,500.4 WO- The carillon -will coat about J23.000 and will be about alx months In the making It Is understood that the chimes will be a memorial to Mrs.

liocke-feUer. who waa an active worker In the church for niany years. The bells will be rung- not only on Sun-i days, but also on national holidays. The only other aet of the kind in the United States will be at Grace Episcopal Church, Plainfleld, N. rjJ to which an anonymous donor has liven a carillon of twenty-three ordered from the Croydon firmi RETIRES A DOCTOR i Dr.

Bulkley, Foe of Surgical Treatment, Is Assailed by His Colleagues. HE URGED MEDICAL REMEDY Dispute Reveals That Oldest Member of Staff Has Quit Active Work There. Dr. Duncan Bulkley. an authority on the treatment of cancer by medicine; has retired from active work at ti.

New "fork Skm and Cancer Hospital, of wnich Is the oldest member of medical staff and a member of the Board of Governors and Executive Committee, as a result of differences with the medical staff with regard to the treatment cf cancer. The retirement of Dr. Bulkley. was brought about more than a year ao, but It was not disclosed until yesterday, when the Board of Governors Issued a statement repudiating his recent attacks on "surgical methods in cancer cases. While admitting that Dr.

Bulk- ley is by many years the oldest physician upon our medical staff." the statement said that the Utle Senior Physician which he uses has never been authorised by the Board of Governors or by any by-laws of the hospital. Dr. Bulkley. who is 77 years old and who has been practicing; for fifty-three years, has been outspoken in his advocacy of medical' treatment for cancer and his condemnation of cancer surgery. He has written four books on cancer one in 11S.

one. in. 117. one ln.ltli and one In It 21 and is now working on a fifth book, to be published next year. He has also written many articles for medical Journals.

The articles to which the Board of Governors objected in its statement were published in the iay premi." The latest was one published about a month ago on the opening of "Cancer Week." which he described ii i monument to hutnbuggery and sordid deception." HespltaJ GverBra Ktatesaeat. The statement Issued yesterday aa a result of these utterances follows: In view of the various communications to the lay press of this city by Dr. It. Duncan Bulkley. a member of the medical staff of ths New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, the Board of Governors of ths hospital feels constrained to make the following statement: "The Board of Governors and the medical staff of the hospital are not In accord with the theories or the practice of Dr.

Bulkley regarding the treatment of cancer. They believe that such practice ss he advocates means the loss of valuable tlmo for the patient and by so much diminishes the hope ot relief which other methods, advocated and used, by the ablest physician and surgeons throughout the world, do give. It is the practice at tne New York Skin and Cancer Hospital to use any and all the treatments which research and experience have demonstrated ts be of value in such cases. In its own research laboratories it is ever seeking knowledge for the treatment, relief and cure of this roost dreaded disease. Dr.

Bulkley Is by many years ths oldest physician upon our medical staff, but he is no longer in active service at the hospital. The title 'Senior Physician which he uses has never been authorized by the Board of Oovemors or by any by-laws of the hospital. For the Board of Governors. ELIJAH D. President." At his office.

8 East Fifty-third Street, Dr. bulkley said, that he had retired Centlaned ea Page Eight. CANCER HOSPITAL Theatres Limit Ticket Agencies to 22; Give Right to Return Unsold Seat Coupons A new plan to eliminate theatre ticket speculation, put forward by executives of the McBrlde and Tyson ticket agencies, wss approved yesterday by a committee of the Producing Managers' Association, and will In aU probability be adopted by the association as a whole at the next general meeting. According to the new arrangement there will be Individual contracts be- ihutr and everr ticket rontrrts will bind the broker to confine himself to premium of 60 cents a ticaeu wuunui for certain shows, extending over a Derlod of weeks, will be entirely ellmt-p V.w. win allotted to fi I SMI auiu ev-e each agency in proportion to the number that they show themselves able to sell.

They however. breturnable-whlch is not the case where a buy exists. It. Is the loss on these forced buys." according to many ticket men. that compels them to charge Urge prices for the real successes.

Cnder the new plsn -there will oe twenty-two authorised tkket sxenclea comprising ail those wbach are now well-known to the trade. These agencies will be carefully policed, and will not De peromtea Ralaler Truck. Made ta Wew Terk. ion. Kr rrrslr.

I rr. rn I- I. eu NO FORTS IN STRAITS, ALLIES ARE AGREED; Their United Answer to Russian Proposals Will Be Made to Conference Today. ISMET CONTRADICTS POPE Denies His Charge, in Appeal to Lausanne, That Christians in Constantinople Are in Peril. BRITISH SAVE ARMENIANS Troops In Constantinople Guard Em-barkatlon of 100 Whom Kemallst Police Tried to Detain, lilt ky Th, Xtw Tort -rjmM cswoj.

Special Cable to Ths New Toaa TimebI. LAUSANNE. Dec. the end of a day of private conversations Lord Cur-son told me tonight that the allied pow. ers had reached sn agreement on the Issue of the Straits, and that at the meeting of the conference tomorrow he would reply to the Russian statement and lay down the allied demands.

The formula agreed upon by the Allies is guarded as an official secret. However. I am in a position to state that France and Italy stand by England in her decision that there must be no fortification of the Straits. The British have ben in favor of absolute freedom of the Straits for warships. As a result of the French unwillingness to stand too firmlv for their prlnciil, I understand It will be proposed that an mission of control shall be empowered international commission cf control phsll be empowered to admit foreign Warships to the lilack Sea when It' ts necessary to protect the interests of the nations concerned.

This gives an idea of the reply Lord Curson will make in answer to the Russian ukase that the Straits must be closed to all warships. meeting yesterday the Turks refused to say that they accepted the Russian program as their own, and there excellent reason to believe that Ismet Pasha will be Willing to accept less than the Russians demand. I I am Informed that Ismet nromlsed Lord Curson that he would make i a Statement of the Turkish position tomorrow. afbr having hesrd the allied proposals. There are indications that the Turks doubt the wisdom of allow big the Russians to lead them blindfolded In this Straits dispute.

The Russian demand for making the Black Sea a mare ciausum has caused the Turks to speculate upon the doubtful advantages of their Black Sea border being left at the mercy of the Soviet naval forces. It Is appsrent tonight that, while they like the high sounding talk of Tchltcberin about complete Turkish sovereignty, they, are thinking twice about the obvious effects in practice of this principle. jThe betting Is all on a British triumph on the Straits Issue, for practically the whole world seems opposed to letting the Russians dictate a solution, and even the Turks are unwilling to associate themselves completely with the Russian scheme. Ambassador Child bad a talk, of two and a half-hours with Ismet Pasha today, in which were discussed the American position regarding the Straits ami the protection of minorities, as well as the demands of the United States for a satisfactory capitulation settlement-It Is expected that Mr. Child will make statement of his Government's views ot the Straits- problem tomorrow if any of the proposals sre In conflict with American interests.

He has received special instructions from Secretary Hughes, and It Is taken for granted here that the American delegates will line up with the British against the Russians. M. Rakovsky told his friends today that if Mr. Child declared for the freedom of the Straits for warships he would demand to know whom tne Americans wished to fight In the Black Sea-It is probable that Mr. Child will have the proper answer ready for Mm.

The telegram of Pope Plus to the conference leaders, asking them to do something to protect Christians In Turkey, has greatly worried the TurkUh delegation and brought the retort that the Pope was not-stating facts when he said that Christians in Constantinople wre In danger, and that he had cen the Victim of anti-Turkish pro; asarKla, Aftr the publication of the lJf.p.-s appeal, the Turks today issued a statement saying that Christians in Turkey were 1 I Centlnoed Page Three. i show over another in the sale of seats. Two cases of favoritism, or of exceeding the fifty-cent premium, will' result in the cutting off of that agency's sup-, ply of tickets. I ThIs plan Is favored by the manssersl committee In preference to that put for-; ward by Joseph Leblsng. who suggeeted a central ticket office vhere seats for all theatres would be put on sale.

The McBride-Tyson plan, sponsored by John McBrlde and w. J. Fallon, the latter the head of Tyson's, can be put Into operation st the termination of the "buys" now In force. The new arrangement will not. of course, prevent Isolated cases of speculation by Indl-vlduala who buy a few seats at a time from the box offices, but the public will be asked to co-operate with th msn-srers by purchsslng only from the box-offices or at the twenty-two authorized agencies.

Although several attempts have been made In the past to control ticket speculators. It was said by a manager last night that the producers are more nearly of one mind at the present time than they have ever been before and that the new plan would almost certainly be adopted. Oeerfne Farm Hassagea. Med beet cetritii 1 witi tte SM'himonfh. Mew Oet the Alt- WARSHIPS MUST PASS First Winter Blizzards Strike Northwest; Temperatures Below Zero Coming This Way Special to The CHICAGO.

Dec. S. Winter descended with suddenness In the Northwest today, with gales and sub-zero weather in the border States, and decided drops In temperature as far south as Texas and Tennessee. Chill blasts slipped down on Chicago during the night, and early, today played a little prelude to the annual performance of mow and Ice and rapidly diminishing coal piles. Since midnight on Monday the thermometer in Chicago had been falling.

The lowest temperature reported was at 8 o'clock, when the mercury fell to 22 degrees. A further drop was predicted for tonight, when the Weather Bureau, forecast that the temperature would go down to about 13 degrees above sere, accompanied by westerly winds. Havre. with a temperature of 16 degrees below sero. was the coldest in the country.

At Helena. he temperature was A degrees below sero. Sub-xero temperatures Were recorded throughout. Montana and North Dakota and parts of Minnesota. Wi-llstcn.

N. reported temperature of 8 below Grand forks. X. 4 below, and Fargo. N.

8 below. LIST OF 800 Judge Mancuso, Following for Grand Jury Inquiries, Turns Over Records. AWAIT FIRST OVERT ACT Drive Against Ku Klux Now Centres in District Attorney, With Mayor's Aid. The first sign of police activity against the Ku Klux Klsn since Mayor Hylan Issued his instructions to Police Commissioner EnrlgM to run the Klsn out of the city, came yesterday, when all the' evidence against and Information concerning the Klan in the possession of the Police Department wn turned over to the District Attorney. This sctlon followed a conference between Mayor Hylan and JudgsVFrancls X.

Mancuso of the Court of General Seasons, wbo on Monday directed the two December Grand Juries to Investigate Klan activities In NewTork County, and to return Indictments If they should find evidence of violation of tlw law. The Mayor directed Commissioner Fnright to give Judge Mancuso all the information concerning the Klafr In his possession. Judge Mancuso In turn handed over the documents to the District Attorney. According to Acting District Attorney Ferdinsnd Pecora, the moat Important material received, from the Police Department was a list of approximately HK) alleged Klansmen. with their addresses.

The greater number of these sre residents of New York City, but among the nsmes sre msny living In the metropolitan section of New Jersey snd In up-State cities. Including Pough-keepsle. Schenectsdy. Tonkers. Buffalo and Syracuse.

Although Mr. Pecora did not say so. the list Is believed to be the one obtained by the police some months ago, when Uoyd F. Hooper was Grand Goblin In charge of Klan organisation work In New York State and the Klan had local headquarters at a house In Central Park West. There wus nothing to Indicate that the police had furnished any definite Information of the Klan'a more recent activities here.

Receives Mysterious Secret." I find that I have here about twenty typewritten pages of names snd addresses of members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered by the police." Mr. Pecora said. Ir addition. I have received two copies of The Searchlight, official organ of the Klan. publish-d at Atlanta.

Ga. 1 hav? not yet had time to go over them and soe Just what they contain. There Is also a printed pamphlet containing the Ku Klux Kreed. and the Imperial Iroklamatlon to all nations, peoples, tribes and tongues, and to all lovvrs of law and order, peace and Justice, of the whole which Is signed by His Majesty, William Joseph Simmons. Imperial Wizard, In the Aullc of His Majesty, the Imperial Wizard and Emperor of the Invisible Empire, In the Imperial Palace at Atlanta, July 4, lPlo.

Mr. Pecora said he also had received the very irysterious and secret A. B. C. of the Invisible Empire." which contains the Klan snkrets." 1th its teachings, its mission, its ritualism and its origin." In this literature, tlie.

Klan Is described as having ths most sub-llmo lineage." snd Bing the most daunt Its organization known to man." 1 suppos'i the Crusaders were plkTs." was Mr. Fecora's comment upon this claim. Asked what would be the next move In the Grand Jury Investigations. Mr. Pecjra said that the District Attorney's offlc" could do nothing but wait for evidence against the Klan.

At-ked if had anything which showed criminal activity on the part of the Klan in New YorH City, he said: Up to the present time have received n.i information or evi lence tending to show that any acts hav been committed by the Klan in the county of New York In violation of the putinl law. The data I hive received from Polio- Department bears upon the organization and personnel of the Klan in New York and its environs. There are about 800 names in tha lists which I have. The ad-lresees show that they live In all five boroughs of New York City, all over Northern New Jersey, throughout Long Island, outside New York City, and up-State as far west as Buffalo. Police Keep CIe Watch.

It should be borne In mind that the prosecuting officers in New York County hsve Jurisdiction only over unlawful sets committed In this county." Reports were current that the police were In of stenographic reports of Klan meetings which have been held in New York City, but Mr. Pecora said he hsd not received sny such reports. It was learned that the Coatlaaed a Page Tear. on mTRK AFTER er Ion. A()v.

POLICE GIVE BANTON i KLAN MOUNTS eto Tor Timet. SAULT STB. MARIE. MicH. Dec.

S. A blizzard of sixty miles an hour, sweeping from White Fish Point to Sault Ste. Marie, has virtually tied up vessel traf fic, has filled the Poe lock half full of water, torn out the Big Point Dispatch Station dock, capslsed a Coast Guard boat, blown the water in the lower part of the river to the lowest level ever recorded and piled snow In places three and four feet deep around the 'city today. Three vessels have not been located, but It in believed thev are in shelter be-htween here and White Kish Point. Tlw an- the steamers Sinaloa, II; W.

Croft and G. W. French. I i A small motor craft of the Coast Guard was capsized while attempting to make a crossing of the turbulent water In the Neebisb Channel. The occupants were rescued.

OGPENSBCRG. N. Navigation on the St. Lawrence River 1 virtually was suspended today when a sixty-mile northwest gale swept the river and north country. Two hundred passengers were marooned here and at Preecott.

ferries belnfj held In port until the storm had abated. i TANK SWIMS HUDSON, PALISADES Christie's Armored Truck Per- forms for Engineers and Army Officers. SPEEDS ON RIVERSIDE DRIVE Climbs 100 Feet, Turns About on Parapet and Slides Back to Shore. A machine expected to revolutionize modern warfare was demonstrated yesterday, when sn armored truck, with a three-Inch regulation field gun; mounted forward, traveled at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour on Riverside Drive. negotiated the lower slope of the pauaaaes on the other side of the Hud son, and then crossed the river under Ita own power.

Tho demonstration was attended nv representatives of the War and Nary impairments, and by several hundred members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers who are attendin the forty-third annual meeting of the organization at 'the Engineering Socie ties Building, at 29 West Thirty-ninth Street. The truck wss invented by Walter Christie, former driver of racing automobiles and designer of i various sorts of gssoline motors. Tbe new amphibious truck, which Is known as. a gun carriage equipped for road, field and water service" was followed up the drive by a procession of automobiles and buses laden with official and unofficial spectators. The vehicle Itself looks like a combination cf tank and truck.

It has six sets of double wheels. The rear set does not touch the ground when the machine Is running on a highway as a truck. When rough country Is encountered a caterpillar tread is attached, I making the truck to all intents snd purposes a trsctor. To make It a power boat propellers are attached to shafts' at the rear of the tractor-truck. Mishap Blverslde.

'Two mechanics of the United States Mobile Ordnance Manufacturers. the builders of the machine, drove It in the test yesterday. They were Harry Anderson and A. J. Ronzoni.

As the trip up Riverside Drive started sn accident occured that would have put any vehicle but a tsnk out of commission. At Seventy-eighth Street a bolt In. the steering knuckle broke and the six-ton slid against the curbstone. Another bolt wss hurriedly put In the Joint snd the mechanics started again. The fore axle seemed sprung and the front wheels wabbled from side to side.

That's nothing." said a man who wae familiar wltn the tank. There'a enough eteerlni; left In the machine to gut it to the Palisades, and once therc-the guiding Is done by the caterpillar treads. In the water, the truck Is steered by its propellers." i The Journey continued safely to the Ryckman Street ferry, where the tank snd spectators were transported to the New Jersey side. Mr. Christie, on the trip oyer.

Inspected the machine carefully and that there was nothing to prevent the test from being com- fileted. Pausing In the shadow of the owering Palisades, the mechanics adjusted the caterpillar treads with their en-eat iron spikes. The truck, now- a tractor, foiled and bumped Its way along shore until It came to -a place: where there was a 40 per cent, slope up; to the jr'at rorlc As the treads slipped and spun In the enrth, softened to mud by the night's rain, the truck-tractor slewd mound and a gasp went up from the crowd. Climbs l'p Steep Cliff, Look out, she's going to fall Into the river," yelled a voice, and there was a general scattering. The field gun pointed slmost straight up to the sky the steel-clad venicle slowly pushed its way up.

The exhaust was roaring like a machine-gun and the men on hoard had to cling to their places to keep from falling out backward. But the truck climbed the hill for a distance of perhaps a hundred feet, when a level place offered a chance to turn around. Then it slid back to the road at the water edge. Th- rest seemed almost The machine simply bumped over a. four-foot stone parapet to the edge of the water, where propellers were affixed In five minutes.

It then pushed Its way Into the water, caterpillar treads elding propellers until the depth became too great, and started for the New York shore. The river here is nearly two miles wide. Bucking a strorug ebb tide, the tractor crossed in about forty-five minutes. After the demonstration. Gen.

S. D. Rockenbach, commanding the tank corps, who was present for the' War Department, said he considered the demonstration very ucressful. 1 It was a wonderful test." said Gen-eml Rockenbach. The grent need of the srmv In niohilltv.

Mr. Christie is working In the right direction." 1 Mr. t'tirlstle has been working for some thin' on this theory of an amphibious truck-tractor-tank. As designed at firesent the machine will carry a three-nch field gun. a crew with shelter snd supplies and ammunition enough to last through a day's firing.

ara? da j. friendly fntk. tr'Vr eOTnfert. of. floor sport.

The Carolina. PwC4itmt.N.C.-Adv. CLARA PHILLIPS ESCAPES FROM JAIL IS Hammer Murderess, With Outside Aid. Makes Daring Dash for Liberty in Los Angeles. SWINGS TO ROOF ON ROPE Barefooted, She' Makes Way Through Adjoining Building and Boards an Automobile.

MATRON ONLY 25 FEET AWAY Husband, Who Suddenly Appears, Denies Helping Her Airplane la Watching on the Border. LOS ANGELES, Dec. one of Ihe boldest and most sensational Jail breaits ever recorded here. Mrs. Clara Phillips escaped laat night or early this morning from the county Jail, where ahe wss Imprisoned under sentence of from ten yesrs to life after her recent conviction for murdering Alberta Meadows with a hammer.

The authorities suspect Mrs. Phillips planned to wreak vengeance gainst Peggy Caffee. her companion at the time of the murder, and whose testimony practically convicted her. for after the prisoner's escape peculiar Ure Imprints found near the Jail were found slso In front of the Caffee home In Long Beach. The young woman was In Los Angeles yesterday and did not return home last night.

Armour Lee Phillips, husband of Mrs. Phillips, wss held In technical custody pending further developments tonight, after denying that he had any part In his wife's escape. who apparently had suddenly disappeared, called at his wife's attorney's office while search was being made for him snd sent word to the Sheriff that he was ready to make a statement. A I A IIJI 1 A Deputise are guarding every known loophole ot escape, speedy motor boats are scouting off shore between Long Beach and the Mexican line and aa airplane Is hovering over the Mexican border: the authorities expect soon to hear. of the fugitive's capture.

The escane. apparently, was planned snd prepared a long time In advance. Mrs. Phillips retired early Isst night, snd complained of not feeling well. When the matron called her this morning she did not answer, and soon afterward the fact ot her escape was known.

Aided by confederates who worked rapidly but quietly within twenty-five feet of the room where the Jail matron sat reading, the prisoner was enabled to wriggle through a small opening made In the window of her cell, and to go from there to the ground by a perilous route which Included. It is believed, rope ladders snd a sheer tieavent down a drain pipe. Footprints showed that she was barefooted. Three steel bars guarding the window In her cell were sawed through from the Inside. Then a square of heavy saah netting waa cut out, and through the opening thus formed the woman made her way out and over adjacent roofs of other parts of the Jail, down through a trapdoor and out to where liberty and an automobile awaited her.

Three Aided In Escape. Investigation Indicated that at least three persons hsd sided the woman. Her quarters were on the third floor of the old Jail building and she occupied a tank cell overlooking the roof of, an auxiliary structure, a story lower. Footprints snd other marks on this root led to the belief that at least two persons had aided her on the roof, that one or, two more awaited them In an automobile 8t the street level. The Jail stands In the main business section of the city.

It Is within a block of the Federal Building, where postal activities are continuous. Street cars pass along one side snd even In the quiet hours of the night vehicular traffic Is There are always Jailers and matrons on duty and a glare of street lamps surrounds It. The matron on duty at the time of the escape wss Mrs. L. D.

Fisher, long a member ot the Jail etsff. She. said she visited Mrs. Phillips In her cell at about 0 30 last night, found her In bed and complaining of illness. Mrs.

Fisher said she then returned to the matron's quarters about a-r feet from the door of Mrs. Phillips's cell. She said during the night alio heard nothing unusual. She knocked all the cell doors at 6:.10 this morning snd then awoke the women in the dormitory- Women assigned to cells have their breakfast in their cells. Mrs.

Phillips's breakfast wss put on a shelf in her door as usual. Later the cells were unlocked and when Mrs. Fisher noticed that Mrs. Phillips Continued en Psge Two. HUSBAND HELD President Breaks Message Precedents By Delaying It Beyond the Second Day WASHINGTON.

Dec. 5. Precedent established early in the history of the Re- public was broken by President Harding I today when he failed to deliver his an nual message 10 uiikico. n.w, convened In regular session yesterday. It has been the custom for the Chief Executives to deliver their mcsssges in person or In writing on the first or second day of a session and, according to officials at the Capitol, the only time this practice has bien broken heretofore was in 1S55.

when President Pierce deferred his message until the last day in December because of the inability of the House to organize. At session it required 1.13 ballots for the House to elect Its Speaker. At the White House it was stated today thst the President probably would deliver his message on the state of the I'nlon Thuisday or Friday. Officials did not Indicate the csuse of the delay, although it waa understood that the Executive, having soleSVesponsIbility for his recommendations, was weighing carefully the program he would outline be- Red. Blue asri Green Kverpotnted Leads, all staiion-rs- A.

VV. r'ABEK. Inc. Aavt. $100-a-Djiy Dress Designer Held for Her Income Tax Mra.

'Jennie M. Robinson. 2P. of 264 Fort Washington Avenue, a dress designer with an Income of a day, was released in ball for trial In Special Sessions when arraigned yesterday before Magistrate Thomas J. Nolan In tbe Tombs Court on a charge -of failing to file a return on her Income last year to the State Income Tax Department.

It was the first time anybody had been arrested In this city on such a charge and the second In the State. Niles R. Becker, District Director of the State Income Tax Bureau, at 233 Broadway, told the Magistrate that Mrs. Robinson received an Income of J6.175 ln: 1820. but made no return In connection with It to his bureau.

He added that Mrs. Robinson formerly was Jennie Mosko-wlts. He submitted sn affidavit signed by Helen Gudert. a bookkeeper, for A. Tralna 133 Madison Avenue, which revealed that Mrs.

Robinson received at the rate of 100 a dsy for her services. Mrs. Robinson's lawyer entered a plea of not guilty, declaring his client had not Intentionally evaded the law. He added that Mrs. sscrlflced $100 income to appear In court.

Clemenceau Says That He Did Not Propose Anything in White House Call. FOUND PRESIDENT, CORDIAL Declares Later That America Will Have to. Intervene Wil son Visit to Be Made Todays Special to The Xev York Time: WASHINGTON. Dec 5. Georges Clemenceau called upon President Harding today to pay bis respects, and the: only reports coming from their hsdf-hour meeting were that courtesies were exchanged and general questions were discussed.

It Is believed that the conversation will continue on Thursday, when France's wartime Premier is to be a White House luncheon guest. Tomorrow afternoon M. Clemenceau will call upon ex-President WHson. whom he hss not seen since the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, June 28. 1019.

It was saM at the WhTte House that the President took pleasure In receiving M. Clemenceau and that matters of state were not discussed In a serious way." Nothing of problems confronting France waa brought up. The call was made In the morning In company with' Ambassador Jusserand. Late in the afternoon the Tiger confronted the corps of Washington correspondents, parried all leading queetlens adroitly and spoke of the aims of his mission much after the manner of his addresses delivered thus far Surtng bis American tour. I spoke solely of general questions." said Clemenceau, describing his Interview with the President.

that I do not think are of interest in the present circumstances. I certainty did not express my views. That was not my! object in coming. I did not come to preach to your Government. I thought I wrould call upon the chief of your Government.

He received me with great courtesy, for which I am very grateful. Did I suggest anything? No. I did not come here to suggest anything. Certainly, I a private citizen of another country, am not going to suggest anything to the rhief of your Government." M. Clemenceau then talked earnestly for nearly half an hour upon the alms of his mission to this country.

Auks If We Intend te Finish, Do fiot think that I would forget the proprieties to come over here snd tell you what to do," he said. I state things aa they are and no more. I have said that 1 came here to stir up public opinion upon some matters. I have tried to put some European questions before the American public, questions that you were interested in "some time sgo. and which I hope you will be Interested In again.

I did not say Do you mean to finish what you have begun or pot? That is what I ask. I think all Europe. France, Great Britain. Germany, all the new European i nationa, have one opinion upon this matter. I ask this with the firm con- viction that speak for all.

and I think i I speak for America, too. i i I have received no mnnitat cither France or America, but I have been In public life for many years. It Continued en Psge Two. I fore the Senate and House in Joint session. Pressure of public business was believed to be in part responsible for the delay, but there were also intimations that the President, because of recent official discussions, felt it would be the part of wisdom to give a few more days' study to certain questions.

There was a suggestion that among these questions was a plan for legislation to aid tho The President discussed this subject late last week with Senator Watson of Indiana and a dozen other Republican Senators, and It waa believed possible that this program had not yet been worked out in all its details Since the regular short eesslon is to deal largely with the annual budget and with the Administration shipping bill, some of Mr. Harding's advisers are understood to have, taken the view that no annual message would be necessary Only two weeks ago, at the beginning of the special session, the President communicated to Congress at length his reasons for asking for passage ot the shipping bill, and the budget with Its accompanying routine letter of trana-mlttnl from the President was sent to the Cspltol yesterday. i Miami, f-'l-u Thru '-ipr 3-49 tcaUard-nt VV. St. Advti" TIGER SEES HARDING AVOIDS MOVE IN SENATE FOR HARDING TO FIGHT Radicals Demand Direct Ballot for President and Earlier Meeting of New Congress.

WHITE HOUSE HEARD FROM Strong Opposition Is, Indicated to Proposal to Advance Date i ui vongtess oession. NORRIS OFFERS THE PLAN Report Attacks Convention Manipulation- Calls Electoral College Bar to Democracy, i Special to The rerk Timet. WASHINGTON; Dec. committees today set In motion machinery to amend the Federal Constitution to provide for the election of President and Vice President by direct vote of the people. A further object Is to fix the date of meeting of a new Congress for the first Monday In January, following a Congressional election.

Instead of the first Monday of the succeeding December, thua avoiding the thirteen months' delay between the choice of a new house and the gathering of the members la regular session. "While the appropriation committees of the Senate were so engaged, word came from the White House. In an Informal but authoritative way. that left no doubt of the opposition of President Harding to one of these proposals at least. The President.

It was made clear, wants to adhere to the provisions of the founding fathers." He trusts In their wia-dom In having fixed the assembly of Congress for not earlier than March of tbe year following Its election. The Congress elected on NovJ -7 will not meet until the first Monday of December. 1833, thirteen months later, unless the President calls It Into extraordinary session after March -1 next, when its official life A 'White House spokesman said that Mr, Harding felt that the President's power, to cjUI an extraordinary, session I amply safeguarded the people's right to express themselveethrough Congress sooner than the regular date of assembly. Hardlag Answers the Bleei This appears to be the President's answer to efforts of the La Follette bloc In Congress. to carry out one phase Of tha nollrles If mAnntA 9 ence here last week.

These views came rrom the white House at almost the exact moment when the bloc was registering It's Initial success along that line, when. In fact, the Committee on Agriculture, under the urging of 'the radical group, was presenting to the Senate a favorable report on a resolution for submitting the proposed amendment: to the States. Besides direct election of President and Vice President and earlier assembly of Congress, the amendment pro-rides thst the President' and the Vice President shall take office on the third Monday in January, two weeks after the new Congress. The Commltttee on Judiciary also la considering a constitutional amendment, the author of which is Senator Ash rat of Arizona, which is Identical, except thst It does not abolish tbe Electoral College. At a meeting of a sub-committee of the Judiciary Committee today arguments in favor of the amendment were made by William Lowell Putnam of Boston, representing a committee of the American Bar Association; Senator George Wharton Pepper 'of Pennsylvania and Edgar Wallace of the American Federation of Labor.

The subcommittee, composed of Senators' Cum mlns, Brandegee and Shields, Is said te stand two to one in favor of the amendment. Drop Caraway's reposal. The Norris amendment from the Committee on Agriculture, which was presented before the Senate- and placed on the calendar. Is a substitute fpr the Caraway concurrent resolution which sought to prohibit Senators and Representatives defeated for re-election from participation In anything but routine legislation and to force the" rea-ignation'as committee Chairmen of defeated Senators and Resresentatlvu The proposed amendment submitted by Senator Norris, Chairman the committee, woo stated thst it" represented views of a majority of the committee. The Caraway proposal ha-1 been dropped.

Senator Norrls explained, because the committee believed It would wuniiuuunai rignis of a Senator -or Representative to participate fully In all. legislation Up to the close of his constitutional term." The amendment Introduced by Senator Norris provides for a general election of the qualified voters of each State to 1 UULV.C real dent and Vice President. The Senate and the House, then would meet in joint session to canvass the vote, each State being allowed as many votes as it has Senators and Representatives, la the event of a lack of a majority of; such State votes, the House would by a majority of Its own vote choose a President a.xm mo uigneai numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as Similarly, the Senate, would by its own majority vote select a Vice President, choosing between the two candidates highest on the lftt. In the event that no candidate had a majority of the State votes. A report accompanying the amendment points out that a new Congress does not actually convene until a year arai three weeks after its members are ek-cted.

a delay once Justified by tho slowness of transportation. There is no reason." the report eon. tlnues "why the Congress elected in November should not be sworn in and ectually enter upon the duties of office at least as soon as the beginning of the vfar 'lection. During I campaign that precedes a general elect.